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•	Newtek Small Business Finance, LLC

•	Newtek Asset Backed Securities, LLC

•	The Whitestone Group, LLC

•	Wilshire Colorado Partners, LLC

•	Wilshire DC Partners, LLC

•	Wilshire Holdings I, Inc.

•	Wilshire Louisiana Bidco, LLC

•	Wilshire Louisiana Partners II, LLC

•	Wilshire Louisiana Partners III, LLC

•	Wilshire Louisiana Partners IV, LLC

•	Wilshire New York Advisers II, LLC

•	Wilshire New York Partners III, LLC

•	Wilshire New York Partners IV, LLC

•	Wilshire New York Partners V, LLC

•	Wilshire Partners, LLC

•	CCC Real Estate Holdings, LLC

•	Banc-Serv Acquisition, Inc.

•	Newtek Business Services Holdco 1, Inc.

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•	our future operating results;

•	our business prospects and the prospects of our prospective portfolio companies;

•	the impact of investments that we expect to make;

•	our informal relationships with third parties

•	the dependence of our future success on the general economy and its impact on the industries in which we invest;

•	our ability to access debt markets and equity markets;

•	the ability of our portfolio companies to achieve their objectives;

•	our expected financings and investments;

•	our regulatory structure and tax status;

•	our ability to operate as a BDC and a RIC;

•	the adequacy of our cash resources and working capital;

•	the timing of cash flows, if any, from the operations of our portfolio companies;

•	the timing, form and amount of any dividend distributions;

•	the impact of fluctuations in interest rates on our business;

•	the valuation of any investments in portfolio companies, particularly those having no liquid trading market; and

•	our ability to recover unrealized losses.

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issue securities or otherwise incur additional indebtedness or other obligations, including (1) any indebtedness or other obligations that would be equal in right of payment to the Notes, (2) any indebtedness or other obligations that would be secured and therefore rank effectively senior in right of payment to the Notes, (3) indebtedness of ours that is guaranteed by one or more of our subsidiaries and which therefore is structurally senior to the Notes and (4) securities, indebtedness or obligations issued or incurred by our subsidiaries that would be senior to our equity interests in our subsidiaries and therefore rank structurally senior to the Notes with respect to the assets of our subsidiaries, in each case other than an incurrence of indebtedness or other obligation that would cause a violation of Section 18(a)(1)(A) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the 1940 Act or any successor provisions, whether or not we continue to be subject to such provisions of the 1940 Act, but giving effect, in either case, to any exemptive relief granted to us by the SEC. Currently, these provisions generally prohibit us from making additional borrowings, including through the issuance of additional debt or the sale of additional debt securities, unless our asset coverage, as defined in the 1940 Act, equals at least 200% after such borrowings;

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with respect to the 2021 Notes, pay dividends on, or purchase or redeem or make any payments in respect of, capital stock or other securities ranking junior in right of payment to the 2021 Notes, including subordinated indebtedness, in each case other than dividends, purchases, redemptions or payments that would cause a violation of Section 18(a)(1)(B) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the 1940 Act as in effect immediately prior to the issuance of the 2021 Notes, we will not declare any dividend (except a dividend payable in stock of the issuer), or declare any other distribution, upon a class of the capital stock of the Company, or purchase any such capital stock, unless, in every such case, at the time of the declaration of any such dividend or distribution, or at the time of any such purchase, the Company has an asset coverage (as defined in the 1940 Act) of at least 200 per centum after deducting the amount of such dividend, distribution or purchase price, as the case may be, and giving effect, in each case, (i) to any exemptive relief granted to the Company by the SEC and (ii) to any no-action relief granted by the SEC to another business development company (or to the Company if it determines to seek such similar no-action or other relief) permitting the business development company to declare any cash dividend or distribution notwithstanding the prohibition contained in Section 18(a)(1)(B) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the 1940 Act in order to maintain such business development company’s status as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

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with respect to the 2022 Notes, pay dividends on, or purchase or redeem or make any payments in respect of, capital stock or other securities ranking junior in right of payment to the Notes, including subordinated indebtedness, in each case other than dividends, purchases, redemptions or payments that would cause a violation of Section 18(a)(1)(B) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the 1940 Act or any successor provisions, giving effect to (i) any exemptive relief granted to us by the SEC and (ii) no-action relief granted by the SEC to another BDC (or to the Company if it determines to seek such similar no-action or other relief) permitting the BDC to declare any cash dividend or distribution notwithstanding the prohibition contained in Section 18(a)(1)(B) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the 1940 Act in order to maintain the BDC’s status as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code (these provisions generally prohibit us from declaring any cash dividend or distribution upon any class of our capital stock, or purchasing any such capital stock if our asset coverage, as defined in the 1940 Act, is below 200% at the time of the declaration of the dividend or distribution or the purchase and after deducting the amount of such dividend, distribution or purchase);

•	sell assets (other than certain limited restrictions on our ability to consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of our assets);

•	enter into transactions with affiliates;

•	create liens (including liens on the shares of our subsidiaries) or enter into sale and leaseback transactions;

•	make investments; or

•	create restrictions on the payment of dividends or other amounts to us from our subsidiaries.

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•	the time remaining to the maturity of these debt instruments;

•	the outstanding principal amount of debt securities with terms identical to these debt securities;

•	ratings assigned by the national statistical rating agencies;

•	the general economic environment;

•	the supply of debt securities trading in the secondary market, if any;

•	the level, direction and volatility of market interest rates generally; and

•	market rates of interest higher or lower than rates borne by the debt securities.

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